On the Internet chat-rooms it was being referred to as the Jesus-phone, perhaps because of its miraculous properties. Like Jonah and the whale, we too spent several days in the belly of the beast as Apple Inc. unleashed its latest creation to the world.

by Mark Neuling

July

It occurred to me the other night, just before sleep shut down my thought processes, that there is a generation of photographers out there who will never have made an exposure on film. Incredible, isn't it? It hasn't been that long since the first attempts at digital came on the scene.

by Dick Kraus

June

Assignment Sheet brings you another in the "From the Pages of Damon Runyon" collection which are reminiscences of some of the strange and wonderful characters who were part of retired Newsday Staff Photographer Dick Kraus' long career. In "Gentlemen Jim" he talks about the colorful Irishman who was a staff shooter from the old school.

April

It is probably the same whether you cover a town or a county for a small, regional paper, or City Hall or the White House for a major market. See if the description fits you in this month's Assignment Sheet feature in The Digital Journalist.

The pretty reporter slumped into the seat next to mine and seemingly to no one stated, "A broadcast journalist without a camera, only a cell phone." The she held up the little camera phone and muttered, "Not even a zoom."

June

When you have been in this business for as long as I, you have to put up with changes in the way things are done, whether you agree with them or not. The changes will keep coming at you and if you resist, you are doomed to a life of misery and discontent.

October

Last month I wrote about "Stick" (Dick Yarwood) and me and our adventures covering the Republican National Convention in San Francisco where Walter Mondale became the nominee for the upcoming presidential election.